Is the FA Cup magic, Napoli draw with Inter and Isco’s Real Betis beat Real Madrid
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Reuben Pinder, Jon Mackenzie and JJ Bull are here to talk about the football.
An unusually open FA Cup quarter final line up, Napoli’s top of the table draw with Internazionale and Isco’s remontada/ renaissance / revival at Real Betis.
These were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Ruben Pinder. And today I'm joined by JJ Bull. |
| 0:15.8 | Good evening. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm John McKenzie. Good morning. |
| 0:19.7 | And today we talked about many things. |
| 0:22.4 | Largely the FA Cup. |
| 0:23.8 | Is there any magic in it? |
| 0:24.9 | How do you measure magic? |
| 0:26.1 | Who cares about the Cup anyway? |
| 0:27.4 | Are palace going to win it? |
| 0:28.8 | Are we going to go all the way? |
| 0:30.8 | How did David beat Goliath? |
| 0:32.8 | Using a slingshot, apparently, but a huge one. |
| 0:36.1 | We spent some time in Italyaly john talks to us about |
| 0:38.9 | shapes and pressing and all that jazz and Antonio conti and why is he not playing a back three |
| 0:44.5 | that was fun there then we play the separation game we're still working on the title um |
| 0:50.8 | spoiler alert not as hard as i thought it was this week. And then we take a trip to Spain. |
| 0:55.7 | We talk about Isco's remontada, or a renaissance, or whichever European word you would like to use for that. |
| 1:01.8 | And then we play Points of Bad, and now I have to plug the live show. |
| 1:06.1 | We're doing a live show. |
| 1:07.5 | Saturday the 24th of May, 2025, this year, not last year, at the Soho Theatre in Walthamstow, not in Soho, in Walthamstow. It's up to the Victoria line. I know it's really far away, but it'll be worthwhile. It depends where you live. Yeah, I mean, it's easy. Because you live near there, then it's close. It's easy for you, but it's not in the centre of the city. So for most people it will be further than Soho, I would say. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, easier to get to than Soho, perhaps. Did you know the Victoria Line is now officially the hottest line on the underground? It's also the quickest. Yeah. That's why that's what they mean. It's also the most frequent. Did you know that? Did you know one way you're... Do you want to write the tubes in order? |
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